About 2/3 of the way through the xf86config interaction, there is a spot
where it asks you if you want to change the order of the resolutions. If you
do so for the 8-bit ones, you should be able to get the system to default to
800*600. I think you do it by specifcying an order like 324, but that's from
memory so don't trust it as exact.
Once X is running, you can change resolutions with CTRL-ALT-(numeric)+ and
CTRL-ALT-(numeric)- .
But your problem *may* that your video card, or our screen hsync and vsync.
do not support 800*600. If that is the case, then no improved configuration
tool will help. Without details, I naturally can't say if this is your
problem, only that it might be.
Now, GUI tools. There are two. XF86Setup and Xconfigurator (think I have the
capitalization right on them). If you get "command not found", it probably
means the tool wasn't installed. (It could mean that it is on the system but
not in your PATH; in this case, use the "find" command to track it down and
run it by specifying its full path.)
Some distributions will install one or the other in a "normal" installation,
but others won't. Since you don't mention what you are running, I can't even
guess. Check the CD for whatever you are running and install the apropriate
packages (for example, in Debian there is xf86setup; the Debian package
manager will take care of its many dependencies; I can't find a .deb for
Xconfigurator). Personally, I don't like these tools, but preferences vary.
At 04:25 AM 8/6/00 -0700, Steven Ackerman wrote:
>I've been having problems changing my resolution from 640x480 to
>800x600. I tried running xf86config and when I do it sets my resolution
>to 640x480. Someone told me there's a gui deal to do it called
>xconfigurator. When I try running that from a command line as root I get
>"command not found".
...
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